Will Methamphetamine Cause The Next American Drug Crisis?

New fears over opioid crisis.

The opioid crisis that has gripped America is one of the biggest modern health epidemics.

But sadly, little seems to be able to be done for those that it has affected. The people highly addicted to these medicines seem unable to find a way out and the doctors are at a loose end as to how to help them.

Synthetic opioids, made by Big Pharma in the 1990s have been blamed for the epidemic. It was made so easy for almost anyone to get a prescription for these strong painkillers that they became widespread.

Before the opioid crisis came to light, one of the worst and most destructive street drugs was methamphetamines, is this set to return?

Synthetic opioids have been mainly shut down, it is very hard to hold of them any more, but sadly this means users then turn to drugs like heroin to get their fix.

Experts are now worried that a generation of drug users that comb the the streets looking for their opiate fix will turn back to methamphetamine.

Around 8,000 people a year die from meth overdose, but this is still dwarfed buy the nearly 30,000 that die from opiates.